Posted November 14, 2021 Good Evening Everyone. I am starting a fresh install of Windows 11 and I have two NVME drives from Sabrent and looking for advice on setting them up and possibly adding another depending on peoples thoughts. They are currently ran as a 1tb and the other is 2tb basic volume and the 1tb drive is my system drive and the 2tb drive is my gaming drive. They are both the pci gen 4 version just for reference and will link the 2tb below. I am asking as I have noticed the gaming drive is getting a little on the full side and its my understanding that about 10% of the drive would be needed for trash allocation, health of the drive and trim. My 1tb drive though is pretty bare other than things like windows, malwarebytes, office pro 2019 and any files i download and keep for upkeeping the system. (chipset drivers ect.) I thought of getting a 4tb drive but for the price...its not there for me yet cost wise. Would it just be best to grab another 2tb drive and run the pair of 2tb drives as dynamic making it 4 tb total? I have a 6tb mechanical drive coming for back up so back ups would be a regular thing. Thank you again for the feed back. Sabrent 2TB Rocket 4 PLUS NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Solid State Drive (SB-RKT4P-2TB) | SB-RKT4P-2TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2021 You could, but you could also just leave it as a separate drive. I don't really understand the point of backing up a drive that only holds games. CPU: Ryzen 9 5900 Cooler: EVGA CLC280 Motherboard: Gigabyte B550i Pro AX RAM: Kingston Hyper X 32GB 3200mhz Storage: WD 750 SE 500GB, WD 730 SE 1TB GPU: EVGA RTX 3070 Ti PSU: Corsair SF750 Case: Streacom DA2 Monitor: LG 27GL83B Mouse: Razer Basilisk V2 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Speakers: Mackie CR5BT MiniPC - Sold for $100 Profit Spoiler CPU: Intel i3 4160 Cooler: Integrated Motherboard: Integrated RAM: G.Skill RipJaws 16GB DDR3 Storage: Transcend MSA370 128GB GPU: Intel 4400 Graphics PSU: Integrated Case: Shuttle XPC Slim Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Budget Rig 1 - Sold For $750 Profit Spoiler CPU: Intel i5 7600k Cooler: CryOrig H7 Motherboard: MSI Z270 M5 RAM: Crucial LPX 16GB DDR4 Storage: Intel S3510 800GB GPU: Nvidia GTX 980 PSU: Corsair CX650M Case: EVGA DG73 Monitor: LG 29WK500 Mouse: G.Skill MX780 Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red OG Gaming Rig - Gone Spoiler CPU: Intel i5 4690k Cooler: Corsair H100i V2 Motherboard: MSI Z97i AC ITX RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB DDR3 Storage: Kingston Fury 240GB GPU: Asus Strix GTX 970 PSU: Thermaltake TR2 Case: Phanteks Enthoo Evolv ITX Monitor: Dell P2214H x2 Mouse: Logitech MX Master Keyboard: G.Skill KM780 Cherry MX Red Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 14, 2021 Author 39 minutes ago, dizmo said: You could, but you could also just leave it as a separate drive. I don't really understand the point of backing up a drive that only holds games. Because of where I live, I can only get 4g LTE hotspot for broadband and gaming. (Won't touch Sat in its current form.) I do have Spectrum coming out again for their yearly survey and hear "At this time, we don't service this area, but we are growing every year and be sure to check back..." Until a hard broadband connection or say Verizon comes here with their home version of 4GLTE with unlimited data cap, every byte of data used is a premium. I back up more than my games of course, but redownloading games off Steam is usually what kills my monthly data cap when I have to do it. I was just curious if there was a huge performance hit by doing it or not of should I shell out the money for a extra drive. I don't see much more going on my system drive so I thought if I could utilize the unused space, I may as well do it...at least it was my line of thinking at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted November 17, 2021 On 11/14/2021 at 10:55 PM, Glow Stick said: Good Evening Everyone. I am starting a fresh install of Windows 11 and I have two NVME drives from Sabrent and looking for advice on setting them up and possibly adding another depending on peoples thoughts. They are currently ran as a 1tb and the other is 2tb basic volume and the 1tb drive is my system drive and the 2tb drive is my gaming drive. They are both the pci gen 4 version just for reference and will link the 2tb below. I am asking as I have noticed the gaming drive is getting a little on the full side and its my understanding that about 10% of the drive would be needed for trash allocation, health of the drive and trim. My 1tb drive though is pretty bare other than things like windows, malwarebytes, office pro 2019 and any files i download and keep for upkeeping the system. (chipset drivers ect.) I thought of getting a 4tb drive but for the price...its not there for me yet cost wise. Would it just be best to grab another 2tb drive and run the pair of 2tb drives as dynamic making it 4 tb total? I have a 6tb mechanical drive coming for back up so back ups would be a regular thing. Thank you again for the feed back. Sabrent 2TB Rocket 4 PLUS NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Internal SSD Solid State Drive (SB-RKT4P-2TB) | SB-RKT4P-2TB Do you really need to get another ssd for games? i put all my games on hard drives and they run fine i would recommend a 2tb hard drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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